Luton Town FC ...

[130R]

Look at the league table for next year!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/l/l...

[Wacky Racer]

Accrington Stanley top........

[Killer2005]

That'll be them fked then

[BJG1]

Couldn't have happened to a nicer club...

[thekirbyfake]

BJG1 said:

Couldn't have happened to a nicer club...

Are you a Hornet or a tt? (which essentially amounts to the same thing)

The whole thing is absolutely ridiculous. Luton went to the Football League to alert them that there were dodgy payments going on in transfers. WE are the ones being punished.

The previous regime were the ones involved in these payments and were also the ones who allowed the club to haemorage money until they went under. The directors refused to go into CVA, sold the players, sold the club and buggered off.

The FA are saying they're doing this to be "fair". The supporters and players, the people the FA are supposed to protect, have been royally shafted.

RIP LTFC

Edited by thekirbyfake on Friday 11th July 09:07

[MentalSarcasm]

Not a Luton fan, in fact a lot of QPR fans don't really like Luton, but a lot of us feel quite sorry for the club. If it was Chelsea or Man Utd then they'd get a small slap on the wrist and told to not do it again, smaller clubs that can't afford expensive lawyers get fked.

The FA is there to protect the clubs, not effectively destroy them.

[thekirbyfake]

Fellow ex-plastic pitch fans should stick together

[Sheepy]

Absolutely fking ridiculous. Why not just relegate them now to the next division, because this amounts to the same thing (although with the pain spread over more than one or two years). I'm not a Luton fan (Pompey is my team), but this just seems like the FA have gone too far.

[Killer2005]

Looks like they didn't want what happened with us (Leeds Utd) again this season.

Altogether now, fk off to the football league

[spikeyhead]

As a long term resident of Luton who used to go and watch the game when you could still stand on the terraces, I'm disappointed at the scale of this.

Previous owners have fked the club over and left. The new owners have been left with needing about 70 points from this season just to stay in the league. Seems very excessive to me.

[BJG1]

thekirbyfake said:

BJG1 said:

Couldn't have happened to a nicer club...

Are you a Hornet or a tt? (which essentially amounts to the same thing)

The whole thing is absolutely ridiculous. Luton went to the Football League to alert them that there were dodgy payments going on in transfers. WE are the ones being punished.

The previous regime were the ones involved in these payments and were also the ones who allowed the club to haemorage money until they went under. The directors refused to go into CVA, sold the players, sold the club and buggered off.

The FA are saying they're doing this to be "fair". The supporters and players, the people the FA are supposed to protect, have been royally shafted.

RIP LTFC

Edited by thekirbyfake on Friday 11th July 09:07

Luton fans are some of the worst I've encountered, only outdone by Cardiff. Regardless of whether the previous regime have gone or not, the club can't be let off scott free for disobeying the rules of the game.

[Alfahorn]

BJG1 said:

thekirbyfake said:

BJG1 said:

Couldn't have happened to a nicer club...

Are you a Hornet or a tt? (which essentially amounts to the same thing)

The whole thing is absolutely ridiculous. Luton went to the Football League to alert them that there were dodgy payments going on in transfers. WE are the ones being punished.

The previous regime were the ones involved in these payments and were also the ones who allowed the club to haemorage money until they went under. The directors refused to go into CVA, sold the players, sold the club and buggered off.

The FA are saying they're doing this to be "fair". The supporters and players, the people the FA are supposed to protect, have been royally shafted.

RIP LTFC

Edited by thekirbyfake on Friday 11th July 09:07

L*t*n fans are some of the worst I've encountered, only outdone by Cardiff. Regardless of whether the previous regime have gone or not, the club can't be let off scott free for disobeying the rules of the game.

I still remember playing L*t*n in a cup tie at Vicarage Road about 6/7 years ago and their 'fans' baiting and threatening the family stand and then coming on the pitch to fight anyone who was interested. I can not remember going to a Watford vs L*t*n game and not being subjected to unprovoked abuse.

I'm thrilled L*t*n are going bust, it couldn't happen to a nicer club.

[thekirbyfake]

Alfahorn said:

I still remember playing L*t*n in a cup tie at Vicarage Road about 6/7 years ago and their 'fans' baiting and threatening the family stand and then coming on the pitch to fight anyone who was interested. I can not remember going to a Watford vs L*t*n game and not being subjected to unprovoked abuse.

I'm thrilled L*t*n are going bust, it couldn't happen to a nicer club.

I too have been to many derby games and the abuse has gone both ways. I was threatened with a knife as a 16yr old at Watford train station after a game once.

I was actually sat in the Vickerage Road end (!) during that cup game (do you remember the result ) and there was plenty of abuse levelled at the away fans.

wrt to that game there were two issues:

1. The ground was massively under policed when that trouble kicked off. It seems they were all outside dealing with the milling crowd leaving the inside for the hooligans.

2. Hooligans is the right word. If that cup game had been against, say, Wigan how many of those people on the pitch would have bothered going? I do not class them as true fans at all and they were only there to cause trouble.

I genuinely can't believe that Watford fans are happy to see the demise of their rivals. Surely you want them around to play and beat them?

John Barnes has gone on record and said the atmosphere at the Luton/Watford games were the best of any he's played at. Remembering he's been in Merseyside and Glasgow that's some statement.

I'll admit to more than a wry grin when they got hammered by Hull in the playoffs but I'd never wish for Watford not to be around.

[Alfahorn]

thekirbyfake said:

I was actually sat in the Vickerage Road end (!) during that cup game (do you remember the result )

Do you remember 4/10/1997?

[Puggit]

Alfahorn said:

thekirbyfake said:

I was actually sat in the Vickerage Road end (!) during that cup game (do you remember the result )

Do you remember 4/10/1997?

I do

We took our foot off the gas at half time to prevent further trouble...

[thekirbyfake]

I haven't been to many games since I went off to uni but that was (unfortunately) one of the ones I went to. Quick possibly the worst halves of football I have EVER seen a side play.

Although that just made Matty Spring's 30 yard screamer in front of the Watford fans all the more satisfying.

See? Wouldn't it be better if we got to play against each other rather than one side disappearing?

Who would your local rival games be against then? MK fking Dons?

[Puggit]

I'm afraid that Luton are already pretty much already irrelevant to Watford.

We really don't currently have a real rival, which isn't a good thing!

[Puggit]

Appeal lost http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/l/l...

Shows that the bigger the team (Leeds), the more the FA like you...

[ZR1cliff]

The way Luton are going, next season they will end up in the Conference South or even beyond, Isthmian Premier, if there's any truth in the fact the Conference don't accept teams in financial difficulty. They might be better off doing an AFC Wimbledon/Aldershot and reforming in a lower league.

Edited by ZR1cliff on Tuesday 15th July 16:54

[Killer2005]

Puggit said:

Appeal lost http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/l/l...

Shows that the bigger the team (Leeds), the more the FA like you...

1. We were never done for making irregular payments
2. The FA claim they've had to give luton a higher penalty as its the 3rd time they've been in administration